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Dependence on agro-commodity exports amongst low-income economies mean that they are uniquely vulnerable to balance of payment shocks. They are often also dependent on the imports of food crops and energy, resulting in a double burden in the post-COVID-19 period. In this paper, we review new and...
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This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
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The root cause behind the Chinese economy's slowing down in 2012 lies in a "one-size-fits-all" approach to macroeconomic management. This approach must be abandoned if domestic demand is to be effectively boosted. A superior approach would involve the introduction of policies tailored to the...
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This paper focuses on the macroeconomic management of large inflows of foreign aid. It investigates the extent to which African countries have coordinated fiscal and macroeconomic responses to aid surges. In practice, we construct a panel dataset to investigate the level of aid 'absorption' and...
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alternative understanding of how debt, inequality and class relate to one another. At its basis is the recognition that over the …
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consequences of the China shock to global food markets for economic inequality in Brazilian municipalities from 1985 to 2020. I … rather unequally distributed. The soy boom has fueled land consolidation and economic inequality, especially in places …
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stability of democracy. One widely studied determinant of political trust is income inequality. While the empirical finding that … societies with lower levels of income inequality have higher levels of trust is well established, the exact ways in which income … inequality affects political trust remain unclear. Past research has shown that individuals oftentimes have biased perceptions of …
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We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous....
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prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes …. Income increases below the inequality line decrease inequality; income increases above the line increase inequality. In … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income …
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The population of people with disabilities in Brazil is estimated at 18.6 million people, corresponding to approximately 8.9% of the population aged 2 years or older. Statistical data indicate significant inequalities in the areas of education and employment, as well as regional disparities...
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